EAN: 9781509890934

THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST - JEREMY B...

A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year A Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year    'An
illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan Dimbleby    Jeremy Bowen  the International Editor
of the BBC  has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its
complex past and its troubled present. Here  Bowen offers you a gripping and invaluable guide
to the modern Middle East  how it came to be and what its future might hold.   In The Making of
the Modern Middle East - in part based on his acclaimed podcast  'Our Man in the Middle East' -
Bowen takes you on a journey across the region and through its history. He meets ordinary men
and women on the front line  their leaders  whether brutal or benign. He explores the power
games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders  whatever
their motives  jostle for political  religious and economic control.  Clear throughout is
Bowen's deep understanding of the political  cultural and religious differences between
countries as diverse as Erdogan's Turkey  Assad's Syria  Netanyahu's Israel  and Palestine 
whether Hamas-controlled Gaza or the West Bank  and his long experience of covering events in
the region.   '[A] compelling blend of sweeping history and vivid memoir' - Mail on Sunday

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